Tera Computer Company

Tera ComputerType| Manufacturing

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Founded| 1987
Headquarters| Seattle, Washington
Products| Computer software and hardware

The Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of high-performance computing software and hardware, founded in 1987 in Washington, D.C., and moved 1988 to Seattle, Washington, by James Rottsolk and Burton Smith.[1] The company's first supercomputer product, named MTA, featured interleaved multi-threading, i.e. a barrel processor. It also had no data cache, relying instead on switching between threads for latency tolerance, and used a deeply pipelined memory system to handle many simultaneous requests, with address randomization to avoid memory hot spots.[2]

Upon acquiring the Cray Research division of Silicon Graphics in 2000, the company was renamed to Cray Inc.[3]

## See also

* Heterogeneous Element Processor

## References

1. ↑ Cray Inc., History
2. ↑ "Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA". 1999. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222015429/http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~carter/Papers/tera2.html.
3. ↑ "Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name". cnet news. 2000. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-237517.html.

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